orientalism
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Noun — A tendency, especially in 19th-century Europe, to depict Eastern subjects using styles thought to be typical of the East.
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Etymology
From French orientalisme, from oriental ("eastern, Oriental"). The sense "patronizing Western attitude" was popularized by Edward Said's 1978 book Orientalism. It is equivalent to Oriental plus -ism.
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